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Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.
Jonathan Swift
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Jonathan Swift
Age: 77 †
Born: 1667
Born: November 30
Died: 1745
Died: October 19
Essayist
Human Rights Activist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Pamphleteer
Philosopher
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Dublin city
Isaac Bickerstaff
M. B. Drapier
Lemuel Gulliver
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
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Big-endians and small-endians.
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I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
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Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
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No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age but that of a good one will not reform it.
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111 company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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I am of the level with common Astrologers who, with an old paltry cant, and a few pot-hooks for planets to amuse the vulgar, have too long been suffered to abuse the world.
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O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
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The more careless, the more modish.
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Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.
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